Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-07
BADGER NEWS.

BADGER NEWS.
MILWAUKEE South Side is excited
over the story of woman who was
lured from her home by y man who
said his wife was i'll, and who took
her into the woods, tied her to q tree
and after stripping her Of her clothing
outraged her. He then tore her cloth
ing into strips, tied her more firmly
and left her.
MRS. JOSIE NEUMER, the young wife
OF farmer, was arraigned before g.
town OF Milwaukee Justice on the Sd,
on charge of grand larceny. The
evidence was so strong against her,
however, that the charge will be
changed to burglary. She was bound
over In the sum OF $500 for trial at
the September term OF the criminal
court. Her husband deposited the
bail.
CONDUCTOR KALLBER, railroader
we'll known at La Crosse, died of pa
ralysis.
The sixth annual convention of the
Woman Suffrage Association will be
held in Madison, September 27, 20
and 20.
The contract of furnishing for
Science Hall, at Madison, with locks,
hinges, fastenings, -lifters and
other hardware was awarded to
Hodge & Homer, of Chicago, at
$S43.2O.
DIR. J. L. MCDONALD, an itinerant
heal-all, has been bound over for trial
at La Crosse for an alleged criminal
assault upon 1O-year-old girl named
Stella Ourat.
HE Northwestern Mutual Relief
Association, which held policy of
$4,000 on the life of the late DIR.
Bruill, of Avoca, Iowa County, has
investigated his early career. He was
q soldier in the Union army and after
several hymeneal experiences spent five
years in Joliet prison for horse-steal-
ing. He was assigned to hospital duty
during his incarceration and on the
expiration of his term commenced the
practice of medicine. He married
again az Avoca and was undoubtedly
a bigamist. He died suddenly while
on trial for poisoning his wife.
The pension payments at Milwau-
! kee for the month Of August aggre-
gated $212,653.77.
THE body of G. Paulsen, who was
supposed to have been murdered, has
been found in the bay at Ashland. AS
his money was found on his person
the theory of foul play has been dis
PEELED.
GEO. 81. TAYLOR & Co., of Chicago,
have been awarded the contract for
furnishing the state with 4 1000 reams
OF calendered book paper and $50
reams Of fine paper of various sizes
and quality at $18,1OO.7O.
THE G. II. Nichols Lumber Company,
| of Onalaska, La Crosse County, has
been incorporated with a. capital stock
of 100000.
CARL j. LOCKE, g. ledger at ST. East
Water Street, Milwaukee, was instant
ly killed by falling down stairs at 1
O'Clock on the morning of the Goth.
Locke was going upstairs in the dark
when he missed his footing and fell
to the bottom. breaking his neck. He
came from La Crosse, and was about
80 years old.
| A DIsREPUTABLE house at Ashland
was raided by the police and eight
persons arrested-four men and the
same number of women. The parties
avoided prosecution under the state
law by marrying.
THE Rev. j. l.. Lipscombe, the Gin
cinnati colored minister who has fol-
lowed his clipping wife across the coun-
try, found the woman and paramour
at La Crosse. The parties have been
arrested on charge of adultery.
HARRY MISTER, the Dane County
farmer charged with stabbing Jacob
Bollenbach, is reported to have disap-
peared.
JOHN DowNEY, of the town of Dun
kirk, Dane County, claims to be 1O5
years old.
A cAR-wHEEL foundry is to be es-
tablished at Ashland.
A CAMP of the Sons of Veterans is to
be organized at Ashland.
The Sisters of Mercy have decided
to locate their hospital at Ashland
instead of at Hurley.
The survivors of Co. G, Eighth Wis
consin Infantry, will hold O. reunion at
Eau Claire on October 13.
EDWARD KALAHER, of La Crosse, a
conductor on the Southern Minnesota
Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul road, is dying with paralysis.
Mr.. Kalaher was trainmaster of that
division of the st. Paul road at one
time.
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